If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVISAt 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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